So I'm in the middle of reading Simon Reynolds - 'Retromania', pretty good book but mostly about genres that can only rehash hallmarks/stereotypes.

For example rock bands are still using guitars that were designed in the 50's and while they've tried to make changes and bring out new designs, people seem content to stick to a handful of designs that have always been popular. Metals bands as well still use guitars that haven't advanced much from the superstrats of the 80's. There's even amps and effects pedals that pride themselves on a 'vintage' sound.

So do you think music suffers from being stuck in the past? Or do these technologies survive because they're just really good?

look nigga, if you're chillin with 5 bros and 2 hos, you're gonna wanna pay attention to all of em equally. not moon over the hos forever and laugh at every shitty thing they say and just stare at them all night, like some of my mates do.

Also... This song reminds me of this ex gf of mine because it was in the film Dark Shadows (2012) that was out when we were together.

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look nigga, if you're chillin with 5 bros and 2 hos, you're gonna wanna pay attention to all of em equally. not moon over the hos forever and laugh at every shitty thing they say and just stare at them all night, like some of my mates do.

I'm just going to assume this should be in the music section, glancing at the OP seeing some blah-dee blah-dee bloom about 50s, guitar and 80s.

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Originally Posted by laid-to-waste

look nigga, if you're chillin with 5 bros and 2 hos, you're gonna wanna pay attention to all of em equally. not moon over the hos forever and laugh at every shitty thing they say and just stare at them all night, like some of my mates do.

Well, let me put it this way. Are there improvements to music? Yes, but they're more things like how it's easier than ever to record on your computer than ever before. As far as guitars & such...I would say that there definitely have been improvements in amps, pedals, & guitar pickups. It seems that we like a lot of the old aesthetics is all.

Every artistic movement goes through three phases - Fuck the rules. Let's invent new rules. Actually, let's just stick to these new rules.
That process is repeated. It's analogy is something like baroque - romantic - classical and it was written by some dude I learnt about last year

Anyway, people still play pianos and they were invented a while ago, but nobody's pointing at blues pianists claiming they're all nostalgic about Mozart.

Also I think part of the reason vintage amps and effects are popular (aside from the reason retro anything exists, and fuck your tattoos) is because high end music production got ahead of itself and compressed tracks, over gated snares and punched recordings. Peeps want to sound like what music sounded like when it was faithfully recorded.

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Eh, I think there's a certain resistance to new ideas among musicians, which is what causes most innovative new gear to not sell at all. And I've noticed a lot of said musicians have this weird pride about it. You know, the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" mentality, only they're smug about it. Like, they're proud of the fact that they don't use anything new, and boast about it.

This is largely something that guitarists have a problem with, though. And to a slightly lesser extent synthesists (most keyboardists don't really have the whole analog fetish thing going on).

Every artistic movement goes through three phases - Fuck the rules. Let's invent new rules. Actually, let's just stick to these new rules.
That process is repeated. It's analogy is something like baroque - romantic - classical and it was written by some dude I learnt about last year